SIF Security

The SIF Security Model focuses on three main areas:

Encryption is a mechanism that ensures that only the sender and the receiver of a message can view its contents. In a totally secure model, all communications between the agents and the ZIS are encrypted. SIF HTTPS is the default communication protocol that has to be supported by all agents within the Zone. SIF provides a method for an agent to specify to the ZIS the security level between the ZIS and other agents when delivering originator's data. Each ZIS implementation must guarantee the security level requested by the originator.

Authentication provides the means for verifying the identity of the message author. It also ensures that each message arrives to the destination in its original state.

Access Control grants the Zone administrator complete control over the communication among agents. It also provides means for controlling which data object an application can provide or request and which events applications can send or receive.